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The curriculum in the digital age
Steven Fawkes, Policy Adviser
BBC Learning & Interactive
[email protected]
The BBC
independent of Government
established by Charter, reviewed by
Government (DCMS)
Public Service
commercial arm - BBC Worldwide
provision for 4 Nations of UK
Learning audiences
Primary schools
Secondary schools
Colleges
Adults
(in all 4 Nations of UK)
BBC RaW
http://www.bbc.co.uk/raw/
Schools curricula
England:
National Curriculum
Wales
National Curriculum
Dept. for Education
and Skills, QCA
Welsh priorities
(language, history etc.)
Welsh Assembly,
ACCAC
Schools curricula
Scotland:
National Guidelines
Northern Ireland:
National Curriculum
Scottish Executive,
LTS, SQA
Dept. for Education NI,
CCEA
Interested bodies, projects and
policies
www.becta.org.uk
www.curriculumonline.gov.uk
www.teachernet.org.uk
www.teachers.tv
Connecting the UK, the Digital Strategy
(DTI and Cabinet Office) - parents and digital divide
Extended Schools
DfES e-strategy / ICT in schools
QCA Futures
Harnessing technology: Transforming
Learning and Children’s Services
Transform teaching and learning ..
Engage ‘hard to reach’ learners ..
Build an open accessible system ..
Achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness..
Priority to provide
A common digital infrastructure to support
transformation and reform
We need better digital resources ..
We must support innovation in the market
by improving our knowledge of where elearning works particularly well..
And we must keep the curriculum moving, to
take advantage of new methods in all
subject areas, and to keep demanding a
better response from the technology.
BBC Learning strategy
Responding to national needs , and local
communities
Supporting formal and informal learning
Mounting campaigns to encourage action
Languages Strategy
www.bbc.co.uk/languages
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryfrench/
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryspanish/
‘digital curriculum’
digital context, all schools connected by
2006
commercial sector response
ELCs
DCMS approval and conditions
‘Distinctive and complementary’
DCMS conditions
stimulating, supporting
and reflecting the
diversity of the UK
continual innovation,
distinctiveness from and
complementarity to
services provided by the
commercial sector
not selling or marketing a
commercial VLE or
textbooks to accompany
the service
not allowing use of ELCs
for purchase of DC
resources
not covering more than
50% of learning outcomes
commissioning in distinct
categories – max 22%
core, max 30% non-core,
26% Nations, 22% minority
publishing an outline plan
for 5 years at least 15
months before the launch
of the service, and learning
outcomes 12 months
before launch
reference to Curriculum
Online, and to alternative
sources of supply, for
which ELCs are available
to schools, in promotion of
the Digital Curriculum
monitoring by the BBC
Governors of
implementation of the
service
review of the service by
the Secretary of State
within two years of the
launch of the service
OJEC process
http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissio
ning/dcp/ojec_front.shtml
‘digital curriculum’
Broadband offering
Learner-centred
Launch January 2006
Branded October 2005 :
BBC Jam
Not accessible outside UK
User Generated content
21CC
Broadband library
Creative Archive
Blast
Who do you think you are?
World War II
Picture of Britain
BBC Learning Projects
http://www.bbc.co.uk/21cc/
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/broadband/
http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/archives/the_bbcs
_plans/index.html
www.bbc.co.uk/blast
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/familyhistory/index.sht
ml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/apictureofbritain/